Juan de Bermúdez

Juan de Bermudez (ber-moo'-deth) was a Spanish navigator of the 16th century. His fame is chiefly due to his discovery of the Bermuda Islands which are named in his honor, and were discovered sometime before 1511, because in that year a map published in the Legatio Babylonica included "La Bermuda" among the Atlantic islands, He died in 1570.

In 2003, Bermuda honored its past as the island nation commemorated the 500th anniversary of Bermuda's first sighting by Spanish explorer Juan Bermúdez in 1503